Dispatches From the Culture Wars

Wallnau Declares Trump ‘King,’ Wants God to Destroy His Enemies

April 23, 2018 By Ed Brayton

Christian con artist Lance Wallnau just slides further and further into the abyss of Trump sycophancy, praying that God will strike down the enemies of Donald Trump — and declaring Trump to be the king in the process. I wonder what country Wallnau lives in inside his head. (more…) Read more

Not Buying Kim’s Claims About Nuclear Program

April 23, 2018 By Ed Brayton

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When North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un announced the other day that he was suspending that country’s missile testing program, I was immediately skeptical. And while Trump has publicly praised it and tried to take credit for it, his national security advisers aren’t buying it either. (more…) Read more

Trump Says Cohen Won’t Turn on Him

April 23, 2018 By Ed Brayton

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While his attorneys and advisers tell him that his former fixer Michael Cohen is almost certainly going to turn on him, Donald Trump is, as usual, playing pretend, saying that Cohen would never do that to him. He’s probably hoping his public expressions of faith will convince Cohen to stay loyal. (more…) Read more

Pro-Trump Pastors Walk Out of Evangelical Conference

April 23, 2018 By Ed Brayton

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A group of pro-Trump evangelical ministers and leaders walked out of a conference held at Wheaton College over what they considered Trump-bashing. The meeting did not include any members of Trump’s “faith advisory council,” which is made up mostly of mega-preachers and prosperity gospel con artists. (more…) Read more

Broidy Corruption Case Gets Broader and Stronger

April 22, 2018 By Ed Brayton

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The evidence is piling up that Elliott Broidy, the recently resigned vice chair of the Republican National Committee’s fundraising committee and Trump’s campaign fundraising committee, was engaging in all manner of corruption to turn is ties to Trump into big money for his business interests. The New York Times has new documents that reveal his attempt to do so with the prime minster of Malaysia. (more…) Read more

Why Trump Plays So Much Golf Despite Promises Not To

April 22, 2018 By Ed Brayton

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Donald Trump went golfing at one of his resorts on Saturday, which I ordinarily would not care one bit about. It’s an incredibly stressful job and I certainly hope every president has a hobby that helps them relax and reduces their burdens. But Trump made a HUGE deal out of Obama golfing and now golfs more than twice as often as Obama ever did. And if he’s going to set that standard, I’ll gladly hold him to it. (more…) Read more

Broidy Offered to Get Sanctions Lifted for $26 million

April 21, 2018 By Ed Brayton

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The real story regarding Elliott Broidy, the vice-chair of the RNC fundraising committee and chair of the Trump campaign fundraising committee who just resigned, is not the $1.5 million payout to a mistress he got pregnant, it’s how he tried to broker is relationship with Trump into millions of dollars in deals with foreign entities seeking favors from the administration. (more…) Read more

Giuliani Joins Trump Legal Team, Immediately Makes Absurd Claim

April 21, 2018 By Ed Brayton

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Rudy Giuliani is apparently the last big name lawyer in America willing to represent Donald Trump, almost certainly due to his love of being on television. And immediately upon joining Trump’s legal team, he made the patently ridiculous claim that he’ll have all this Mueller business wrapped up in a week or two. (more…) Read more

Sessions: I’ll Quit if Rosenstein is Fired

April 21, 2018 By Ed Brayton

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Jeff Sessions, long one of the most unprincipled little weasels in all of Washington, DC, appears to have discovered that he’s a vertebrate, telling the White House that if Trump fires Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, he will resign his position as Attorney General as well. I’m not sure whether that makes it more or less likely that Trump will fire Rosenstein. (more…) Read more

Cuomo Rightly Criticizes Joe and Mika

April 20, 2018 By Ed Brayton

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I’ve been meaning to write something like this and CNN’s Chris Cuomo did it for me. In a discussion about Sean Hannity’s status as an unofficial advisor to Trump, Cuomo correctly notes that Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski played much the same role before suddenly turning on him later. (more…) Read more